Recently, I don’t know if it’s due to the decrease in the number of players or not, but bots have started to appear in the squad mode like they did during CBT.
The number of bots is not balanced at all, and in the worst cases, half of the teams are bots.
Furthermore, the developers seem to be hiding this fact by disguising the bot’s name as the player’s name.
It used to be easy to identify a bot because “Complain” was not displayed when you clicked on the bot’s name, but somehow the update changed it to be displayed on the bot as well.
I wonder if they’re going to make it possible to add bots as friends next?
Frankly, I’m sick and tired of these cover-ups.
I think it would be more constructive to make the number of bots for both teams equal first, instead of spending the effort on these concealments. What do you think?
So much for my complaining, let me conclude with a suggestion of my own.
・Make it possible to tell if a bot is a bot by its name.
・Match the number of bots in both teams.
Thanks.
Knowing who’s a bot and who’s not would help the discussion regarding balance as well. It would also reveal the state of the game to a greater extent, such as a fragmented player base between the campaigns and lack of players. Issues regarding the game are that much harder to diagnose or even see as the player when the developers do not reveal the game’s full hand. Remember, it is fundamentally a beta. Is it a beta in name only or is it a proper beta? Bots were originally added to bolster numbers because of the low player base during the early phases of the beta - in other words a provisional and purely functional addition for the purposes of beta testing. Now it seems like a gameplay and meta addition. The developers ambiguity is not helping case.
Ha…its seems, that Im actually stupid or very naive. I had a feeling about bots in squad-mode for a few days now. And now that Im certain, that they added bots, the game is now totally useless to me… the idea was great to get AI-players with you but as teammates? no sir… I only have just a few hours a week for playing and I was glad when I could play some rounds in the evening but now. Thats bad, I only play normandy as Axis only, Im kinda maxxed out (regarding the campaign levels and 10 five star characters) but there was something which kept me playing…
The bombers in normandy, well there were dozens of threads and there were a lot of games, which really pissed me off, getting ripped in a FPS-game
the Jumbo vs Panzer IV its just rediculous… Just a smal MG-spot and a tiny spot on the top of the turret is the only way to kill it from the front (which is mostly the case on d-day and ver sur mer (d-day alternative map) and every other tank can somehow penetrate my panzer IV…destroying my turret, my gun, my enginge… even a stuart can do this, the m8 too, shermans ofc and the OP-Jumbo… but hell, I still played the game
weird map- balance… for example: ruins of vaux…the first spot as axis defending, is the easiest spot to take, i had teams and round were the allies were really wrecked by the axis but in 9/10 games the first objective was too easy…the church (2nd obj) is one of the hardest but the most entertaining part of this map… but most of the time the allies get it, because of planes, arty, jumbo, mortas which brings us to the 3. obj…which is a pain in the arse… the jumbos / M8s shot from behind (grey area) into the windows and the allies keep pushing and surprise surprise the bombers even kill everyone in the house… if the allies get this point the map is over…I’ve never saw a round axis winning in the bunker or at the railroad-gun-point…they changed the spots which was decent so they got me back into playing ruins of vaux… but the last 10 games I was topfragging most of the time… with over 100 kills mostly (infantry only) and only on invasion maps (I hate conquest)
But the last few games, felt different. The team was even trying. I was the only one fighting at the objective and my mates only had around 20 kills later maybe 40, when I had 120+ kills… I kept tanking, building rally points but we still lost the game ofc…
And now I see ppl confirming my thoughts thats they add bots to the game… Well…screw it… I liked normandy even as an Axis-Main, trying everything to help the team, fragging, building, tanking, fortifying… I will send this text also as a ticket. maybe the devs will change something to get more players in to normandy again or attract more players…